It's a bit late and we have a long day of travel tomorrow but it is worth updating the blog to say that we survived eating fugu. It deserves a long detailed post but for now I will say it was a quint essential Japanese experience and it was very expensive. I'm glad I asked a good friend for his recommendation; there are many restaurants serving fugu to unsuspecting but brave and curious tourists, but he didn't lead us astray. I don't know how a tourist would even ever find this place. Below is a composite of Sean taking a bullet for the team and eating the treasured cheak of the fugu.
I also think Osaka had great shopping. And this comes from someone who doesn't particularly like shopping. The area in which we were staying in Osaka (around Namba station) is not so overwhelming as Shibuya. I bought some Paul Smith jeans and now owe some bank my liver. Too much fun.
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From the Wikipedis "Fugu" article:
"The fish contains lethal amounts of the poison tetrodotoxin in the internal organs, especially the liver and the ovaries, but also in the skin and the testicles. ... Every year a number of people die because they underestimate the amount of poison in the consumed fish parts."
Wow. Glad you're alive Sean! (Maybe don't show your mother this)
WFT! The skin too! We ate that stuff!
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